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(ii) Ice Cream
All dealers in ice cream must be registered, and at the end of
the year there were 244 vendors on the register.
During the year 11 samples of ice cream were taken for
bacteriological examination. All were satisfactory, and were
further classified as follows:—
Ministry of Health (Provisional) Grade I —9
Grade II—2
Ten samples of ice lollies were taken for examination and
all were of a satisfactory standard.
Thirteen samples of ice cream were submitted to the Public
Analyst for chemical examination. All these proved to be genuine
and complied with the Food Standards (Ice Cream) Regulations
1959.
(iii) Meat Inspection
There are now four licensed slaughterhouses in the Borough,
one of these being licensed for the slaughter of horses as well as
livestock. One slaughterhouse is operated by a firm of Wholesale
Butchers who supply meat to retail butchers in the Borough and
adjoining districts and provide meat for the London Markets.
Slaughtering takes place on seven days of the week and the
Public Health Inspectors attend the slaughterhouses regularly
including Saturday afternoons and Sundays to ensure that a 100%
inspection of all meat produced in the Borough is maintained.
Daring the year under review 1,390 such visits were made.
Daring this period a total of 31,194 animals were slaughtered. A
total of 10 tons 12 cwts. 100 lbs. of meat was found to be unfit for
human consumption, and this was disposed of for animal feeding
through the recognised channels.
Table 12 sets out the particulars of the animals slaughtered
and inspected and the details of condemnation.
During the year under review the number of animals
slaughtered was 139% higher than that of the previous year.
Naturally this means, that in order to secure 100% inspection,
the inspectors had to spend approximately double the amount of
time at the slaughterhouses and during the year a total of 670
hours overtime was worked this being mainly on Saturdays
and Sundays. It is interesting to note the decrease in
the evidence of tuberculosis found in cattle and pigs over the
past 10 years. In 1950 the percentage of cows infected with T.B.
was 26.7% as compared with 0.33% in 1960, in 1950 the per-
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